The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1887-01-27
hs DAYS ON THE DESERTED
BATTLEFIELD
,rrp By RUSSIAN VOLUNTEER.
BY NJ. gARsuisE.


Iv God. Alb. perhaps there is
. water ia the Turks drinking
must get to him. whatever
Effort costs. Aud oh, It cost
cb. No matter, l shall do IL.
creep with my legs dragging in-
. behind me, my feeble hands
div able to move forward my body
ID with excruciatiug pain. There
hardly two yards between rue
the corpse. Yet, to me they
m miles. But I must creep. My
|cbod throat burns like fire. |
hid die more quickly without wat
Well perhaps. Aud 1 creep,
poor legs ca,hing in the slightest
rh-ances on tho ground causing
intolerable pain ut each move.
BIT. cry, lament, aud contiu-
creeping all the time.
be am at last! l bold the drink
flask in my hands 1t is net
Re than half filled with water.
b shall have enough TO last a
g while. I shall have enough
n the end All, | killed you,
that are now saving my life.
rs to detach the flask su pportipg
|self on my elbow, but lose my
anco and fall, with my face on
breast OF my preserver. smell
odor Of a cadaver.
have drunk. The water is warm,
J not spoiled, aud there is q good
N d it, | shall live several days
| remember having read in a
rk on physiology that n man can
b without food for u week pro
led he has water.
\ | should live five days more,
Sat would happeni Our trool 8
10 departed; the Bulgarians must
y been dispersed. No food pas:
through these regions. Then
must die. But, instead of n
TN agony of three days duration,
20 will last q week. Wouldn't
be better to flush with it n
ee' a ride lies at my neighboi'-
e, aa admirable arm of English
Irufaciure. There is package
cartridges. / hive only to stretch
} nv hand and all would be said
6hall 1 put an end to this. or
Iii wal? But wait forwha,? Del
Rance, death, to wait nutil the
Irks come and tear the skin from
wounded legs' 1t is much better
n I myself
No. l mustn't give up. l will
Iugsle to the end, to the last bit
my strength. For,if | am found,
Shall be saved, md il my life be
\ injured at its source, shall get
ll. / shall see my native land
kiu, aud my mother and Masha
ary).
god grant that they may never
|rn the truth that they may think
bays that l have been killed at
be. II they knew what l have
fered ono, two, three, four days.
would be too horrible [!
ply head turns around The jour-
| have made to my neiRhbor has
(erly exhausted me. And this
shtful smell! How black he has
bone! And what will he be TO-
brow aud after to morrow
remain there, however, for /
ve not the strength to get away
Yer, after having rested O little, ]
] return to my place. Fortu-
bely the wind blows and bears
odor away from me.
s;c lying on the ground, COM
Nelly exhausted. Tho sun burns
face and my hauos, and l have
ehing with which to protect my.
from il II only the night
uld come faster! 1t would be the
oud, think.
Ny ideas become hazy I forge,
fall asleep.
Nv.
have slept long time /; I awake
night'fall nothing is changed
wounds hurt me. My neighbol
IT my side, always as big aud a
tionless. cannot help thinking
bin. Did I, then, leave all I hole
y, making forced marches, endnr
hunger, cold, fatigue, heat
nnded finally and suffering mar
dom, oil that this unfortunate
ht cease to livei What goot
e ! done my rouutry, except tbi
Fderf Murder, murlsrsr-- Who